Category Open Source

Databricks Reaches $188 Billion Valuation as Investors Reward Its AI Turn

Databricks valuation jumps to $188B as investors back its AI pivot, new products and enterprise cost-control strategy.

Patreon is blocking AI scraping with Cloudflare tools, replacing robots.txt requests with direct enforcement to protect creators' work.

General Compute lands a $400 million loan from Upper90, signaling that inference chips are becoming a major new AI financing asset.

Kimi 3 could match Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 as Moonshot readies its largest open-weight model and new funding push.

Thinking Machines launches an open-weight model, Inkling, to push enterprise AI customization over one-size-fits-all chatbots.

A reported Suno hack suggests the AI music generator scraped YouTube and other sources, deepening copyright and privacy concerns.

Open models are taking share from frontier labs as enterprises seek cheaper, customizable AI and less vendor lock-in.

Reflection AI signs a $1B compute deal with Nebius, underscoring the growing importance of compute deal spending in the open-model AI race.

Nous Research is reportedly raising at least $75M at a $1.5B valuation as demand for AI agents and Hermes heats up.

Satya Nadella warns AI models may make companies pay twice — in cash and proprietary data — and urges more control, routing and open-source use.